- For Dummies Guide Helps You Get Savvy About Health Benefits
It's that time again - time to make health benefits decisions for the year ahead. If you have health benefits through your employer, this likely means you. When it comes to Open Enrollment - the time typically from October to December when you have the opportunity to re-evaluate your health benefits for the year ahead - where do you even start? A new guide, Navigating Your Health Benefits For Dummies®, can help.
And if you're one of those people who doesn't have employer-sponsored health benefits, you can still learn about health benefits - and how to make the most of them - with this handy new publication.
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- Are You Prepared?
Take Measures to Protect Your Family's Health in the Event of a Natural Disaster
After last year’s shocking headlines describing the devastation
caused by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, it’s hard to ignore
this frightening topic. But you don’t have to live in a
hurricane-prone area to become a disaster victim. Natural disasters are
on the rise worldwide - 360 natural disasters occurred in 2005 compared
to 305 in 2004. In the United States alone, last year’s wildfires
burned an estimated 8.53 million acres across the nation. Experts are
predicting that the 2006 hurricane season will be another active one,
and the early onset of tornadoes in Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee
indicates a busy tornado season as well.
Natural disasters can strike quickly and without warning. Advance
preparation is important, and it is critical to consider health
information when planning ahead or dealing with the aftermath of a
natural disaster. More than likely, health benefits are not top of mind
- if you are even taking time to plan at all.
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